13 jobs found in Amsterdam

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems. The quantitative trading teams at Jump Trading probe and examine the global markets, seeking to understand the complexities of various traded products and exchanges. They leverage their impeccable statistical analysis and data...

Trading Operations Engineer The Trading Operations Production Support Engineering team is responsible for maintaining and scaling Optiver’s low-latency trading systems. The team ensures a safe, stable, and efficient production environment while supporting profitability and sustainable growth across various regions. Collaborating closely with traders, development, and operational teams, the engineer will deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize our trading infrastructure to enhance reliability, performance, and automation. WHAT YOU’LL DO Provide technical expertise and support to high-frequency trading floors, troubleshooting complex issues and resolving incidents in a fast-paced, dynamic setting. Deploy, maintain, and monitor proprietary trading applications, ensuring stability and performance in the trading environment. Review and analyze incidents to identify recurring themes, driving improvements to enhance automation and operational efficiency. Coordinate...

Optiver is seeking a Senior C# UI Engineer to help shape the next generation of our global trading and research interfaces. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building performant, intuitive, and scalable user interfaces that interact seamlessly with our C++-based backend microservices. Our UIs are built using an in-house, high-performance C# framework that abstracts much of the complexity of our systems, enabling developers to rapidly build robust tools for traders and researchers. Your role will be to both leverage and extend this framework — working at the intersection of C#, C++, and real-time data to deliver world-class applications. You will collaborate closely with developers, traders, and quantitative researchers to understand their workflows, design effective user experiences, and ensure reliability and speed in a low-latency trading environment. WHAT YOU’LL DO Design and build high-performance UI applications using C# on top of Optiver’s...

As a Trading Risk Analyst at Optiver, you’ll be responsible for monitoring our ever-changing trading activity across all desks and products. We’re looking for analytical, quantitative and curious individuals who enjoy working with numbers and are interested in following financial markets. This position offers variety in both daily work and longer-term projects, focusing on internal market and credit risk metrics, regulatory capital and clearing requirements. You will be given meaningful responsibilities early on, such as deciding on the size of our positions, and expected to consistently contribute to improvements in our risk frameworks. Working on the Amsterdam trading floor, you will be at the forefront of the market, liaising with traders on new business initiatives and helping make decisions that will have direct impact on Optiver’s P&L. What you’ll do: You will start with a 3-month comprehensive training program focusing on the fundamentals of trading: theory,...

Optiver leverages technology to solve a variety of complex problems: optimising for scarce bandwidth, responding to market events with nanosecond speed, automatically pricing complex sets of financial instruments with extremely low error tolerance, and analysing huge volumes of data. Our systems are built to add to the stability of the market, not detract from it; therefore they must operate at peak efficiency in the most extreme market conditions. To achieve this, our user interfaces must present coherent, responsive, real-time visualisations of market activity and system performance while providing intuitive control of a highly complex system.   Our Core Software Engineers focus on the infrastructural and strategic components of our software landscape, ensuring the core elements provide a stable, performant, and trusted foundation upon which our systems are built. WHAT YOU'LL DO: Our systems play an essential role in everything we do in the trading domain. That is why...

As a US Treasuries Trader at Optiver, you will take a leading role in trading and risk-managing US Treasuries across multiple venues. You’ll drive macro trading strategies by taking positions and analyzing macroeconomic data, policy shifts, and cross-asset flows to uncover and capitalize on short- and medium-term market opportunities. What you’ll do Trade and manage risk across US Treasuries and related instruments, leveraging Optiver’s proprietary pricing models and infrastructure. Quote and execute orders for institutional counterparties while ensuring tight, competitive pricing and efficient hedging. Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers, developers, and other traders to continuously refine pricing models, execution algorithms, and trading strategies. Monitor macroeconomic data releases, policy developments and cross-asset flows to identify and act on short and medium term trading opportunities. Build and maintain relationships with market...

As a German Bunds Volatility Trader at Optiver, you will take a leading role in trading and risk-managing interest rate volatility across the German government bond complex – Bund, Bobls and Schatz. This role blends the fast-paced decision-making of a screen trader with the relationship-driven insights of an institutional trader. You’ll operate at the intersection of liquidity provision, market structure expertise, and client interaction helping Optiver to maintain its position as a leading liquidity provider in European fixed income markets. What you’ll do Trade and actively manage volatility risk across German Bunds and related fixed-income derivatives, leveraging Optiver’s proprietary pricing models, execution infrastructure, and real-time risk systems. Quote, price, and execute options and volatility trades for institutional counterparties, ensuring competitive markets, tight spreads, and efficient hedging across Bunds, Bobls, and Schatz products. Collaborate with...

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998. Tower has built its business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams. We have a 25+ year track record of innovation and a reputation  for discovering unique market opportunities. Tower is home to some of the world’s best systematic trading and engineering talent. We empower portfolio managers to build their teams and strategies independently while providing the economies of scale that come from a large, global organization.  Engineers thrive at Tower while developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world class level. Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration and machine learning. Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality, scalability and performance. At Tower, every employee plays a role in our...

As a Trader Intern, you will complete a 9 week training programme in Options Market Making run by our traders, including trading simulation, project work and programming courses. Throughout the internship you will gain insight into the work of our market making desks whilst having the opportunity to get to know us at our regular social events. At the end of the internship, you will be considered for a place on our 2027 Amsterdam Graduate Trader Programme.  During the Internship, you will spend your first 3 weeks in our London office for a fast-paced, interactive introduction to Trading, before returning to Amsterdam for the remaining 6 weeks of the programme.  You must be in your penultimate year of university in order to be eligible for this position. We are looking for candidates from any quantitative background with a competitive nature and a strong understanding of probability and statistics to join our team for the summer. The programme will run from 22nd June -...

As a Trader Graduate, you will complete an intensive training programme run by our most talented traders, including theory training, education sessions, live-market trading, and programming courses. We will teach you the skills to trade with the latest available tools and we aim to give you responsibility for the profit and loss of your book as soon as you are ready. We are looking for final year applicants from any quantitative background with a competitive nature and a strong understanding of probability and statistics to join our Graduate Trader Programme in Amsterdam. The programme start date will be Monday 7th September 2026. Training Location  All Graduates will complete an initial 3-month training period in London. Upon completion of training, candidates will be relocate to our Amsterdam office to join Options Market Making trading desks. What we’re looking for Strong numeracy and a good understanding of probability and statistics Competitive...

Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Digital Assets Trader to join our growing Trading team in Amsterdam. The ideal candidate exhibits strong local reasoning and mathematical skills along with a passion for the financial markets. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. As a Digital Assets Trader at Flow Traders, you will be part of a highly innovate and successful global team that trades on various cryptocurrency exchanges with a focus on ensuring around the clock liquidity within these markets. In this role, you will be tasked with implementing successful strategies in corporation with the global team that will increase the overall profitability of our Digital Assets business, part of Flow Traders’ strategic growth plan.   What you will do  Generate and implement...

Flow Traders is looking for experienced Traders to join our growing teams in various asset classes, including Equity, Fixed Income, Digital Assets, FX and Commodities at our Amsterdam office. The ideal candidate exhibits in depth knowledge in trading along with a passion for the financial markets. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities.    What you will do Formulate quantitative and automated trading strategies Manage and optimize your intraday trading positions together with your team Focus on technical improvements on the desk while also automating various daily processes Manage trading positions and ensure essential information is captured accurately Identify new opportunities and products that align with Flow Traders growth strategy   What you need to...

Stay Informed about Future Opportunities! Our 2025 Graduate Trader positions are now filled, but some great opportunities will be available again in 2026. If you are interested in staying updated about the future opportunities you can submit your application through this expression of interested. Onboarding As a Graduate Trader, you will begin your career at Flow Traders with an extensive 3-month training program at our Amsterdam office. During this program, you will learn everything you need to know about our core business, the financial products we trade and the intricacies surrounding our trading processes, including pricing strategies and our proprietary trading systems. It will also include participation in trading simulations and quantitative classes hosted by our Senior Traders and Quantitative Researchers that will further strengthen your understanding of a Trader’s role in the financial ecosystem. After collaborating with your fellow graduate traders on a team...